In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O'Connor and in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, both stories deal with of man's life inhumanity in different situations, and ending with a similar consequence. Jackson and O'Connor both use two characters to represent the man who has the power to manipulate truth and objection into something that people accept. In O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find, the Misfit is a character in need of desired assistance, troubled and confused who wanders wildly killing strangers. On the opposite side of the ring, there is a seemingly traditional Caucasian elder from the early 1900s traveling with his family. Looking forward to wasting time, Grandma accompanies her family throughout the southeastern states. The two meet in a tire blowout, and through the evil mouth of the grandmothers it will be the end for the entire family. In a hasty reaction trying to spare his own life as well as that of his already dead family, he extends his arm towards the cold killer trying to reveal the last shred of morality of the Misfit. At that moment her Christian morality is revealed, but unfortunately the old woman is ultimately silenced. The Misfit fired his gun, scared and in awe of the hope and desperation Grandma had in her Christian hopes of saving her life. With humor regarding the murder, the Misfit quotes: "She would have been a good woman," said the Misfit, "if there had been someone there to shoot her every minute of her life." "In Matthew 10:39 Jesus says, "Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." O'Connor delves into this paradox in many of the stories in A Good Man Is Hard to Find. For example, the grandmother in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" loses her ground... middle of paper. ...and not using her voice caused her to lose her life; by not speaking he had already laid his hands in blind obedience resulting in stoning, these stories address the very essence of inhumanity in the Are you willing to play the lottery tradition? Works CitedHooten, Jessica Comp. Baylor University. “EBSCOhost: Individualism in A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND” (2008). EBSCO Publishing Service selection page. Network. November 15, 2010.Connors, Flannery O' "A good man is hard to find." Pegasus web server home page. Network. November 15, 2010.Shields, Patrick J. "EBSCOhost: Arbitrary Condemnation and Sanctioned Violence in Shirley Jackson's "the Lo..." Vol. 7.No.4 (2004): 411-19. Service selection page EBSCO publication. December 2004. Web. November 15, 2010. Jackson, Shirley "The Lottery: Shirley's Classic Stories".. 2010.